Gundakar of Liechtenstein

Gundakar of Liechtenstein (1580–1658), born at Lednice, was the youngest son of Baron Hartmann II and brother of Princes Karl I and Maximilian. In 1606 the brothers agreed that the first-born of the eldest line would head the house, and in 1618 he married Elizabeth Lucretia, Duchess of Cieszyn.

He served the Habsburgs as soldier, diplomat and imperial Obersthofmeister through the Thirty Years' War. In the White Mountain confiscations he acquired Moravian lordships, and in 1623 he and Maximilian became imperial princes; in 1633 his estates were styled the Principality of Liechtenstein. He founded the family's younger Gundakar line.